International News:
Rights abuses continuing in Sri Lanka: E.U.
COLOMBO: The European Union (E.U.) has said that it “continues to
harbour very serious concerns about continuing reports of human rights
abuses” in Sri Lanka and stated that the legal provisions of the GSP+
Scheme (under which the ...
West Asia peace talks stalled
Palestinians see no hope of change on the ground
China sends more troops to Tibet
Beijing: Stepping up its action on the spiralling protests by Tibetans,
China has arrested over two dozen people and said that 170 others had
“surrendered” as it rushed more troops to Tibet and nearby provinces
where agitators ...
Sarkozy’s wife attacks media
Paris: French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy on
Wednesday took the unprecedented step of writing an opinion piece in a
national newspaper on the ethics of journalism, attacking reporters who
took gossip for fact ... Hubble finds methane on distant planet
New York: Astronomers have detected an organic molecule in the
atmosphere of a Jupiter-sized planet, a breakthrough which they claim
will help in identifying signs of life outside our solar system.
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, they discovered the
carbon-containing molecule methane on HD 189733b, a planet orbiting a
star located 63 light years away in the Vulpecula constellation.
Under the right circumstances, methane can play a key role in
prebiotic chemistry — the chemical reactions considered necessary to
form life. “This is a crucial stepping stone to eventually
characterising prebiotic molecules on planets where life could exist,”
astronomer Mark Swain of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California
said.
Water has also been found in its atmosphere, but the astronomers say the planet is far too hot to support life.Cinema Plus:
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Bipasha Basu has proved that lookers can be thinkers too, says Rana Siddiqui
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LOVE / HATE
Why I like... Vettaiyadu Vilayadu
Given my passion for movies, there are many films I like. But the one film I absolutely loved was Gautham Menon’s Vettaiyadu Vilayadu. It was an amazing movie, quite like a Hollywood flick, classy and slick. I am a huge ...
Why I hate.. Fight Club
It’s easy to criticise. I used to do it as a VJ. What does it take? You
just stand in front of the camera and rubbish someone’s work. There’s a
lot of work and skill that goes into making a film. But as an actor,
the day I ...
Mumbai Express
If you are wondering who is behind that sleek look of all the stars in Race
(Saif, Anil, Akshay, Bips, Katrina and Sameera), it’s the hot and
happening Bollywood designer Anahita Shroff, who sprang to everyone’s
...
Cine Quiz
2. Who played the main role of Sankara Sastry in K. Viswanath’s Sankarabharanam? 3. Who played Mr. Brown in Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs? 4. “Twelve outrageous guests. Four ...
Grill mill -- Sameera Reddy
I don’t know till date. But it left a bad taste in my mouth. I was not
happy with the way things were handled. I was new to the business.Wikipedia tells us you are doing this movie called Lust: The India ...HOT FROM HOLLYWOOD
Clooney’s confession
George Clooney admits if he went to church he may never come out again because he would have so much to say in confession. Leatherheads star George was raised a Catholic but admits he has not been to church for decades and a ...
Chocolates over beer
Reformed wildman Colin Farrell has told of the torture he endured filming his new movie in the Belgian city of Bruges. The Phone Booth star says being in a city known for its beers was almost too much to bear since he’s ...
Pap snaps better
Charlize Theron enjoys being caught off guard by paparazzi because she
likes people to see what she looks like normally. The South African
beauty who famously morphed for her role in Monster says the pictures of her in her ...
Outdoors attract
Jessica Biel has put her stunning body down to her love of the outdoors. The Illusionist
beauty and girlfriend of pop hunk Justin Timberlake says if it wasn’t
for her mother dragging her away from the television as a ...
Daryl loves to shovel
Instead of partying the night away with fellow Hollywood stars Splash
actor Daryl Hannah plans to spend her evenings as a guerrilla gardener.
The 47-year-old actor heard about groups who tidy up public gardens
after dark and ...Finally today''s SuDoKo
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